ABSTRACT

In the present work, we review a growing programme of research identifying deficits in race-based interpersonal sensitivity, specifically emotion detection, as a route to creating pitfalls in interracial interactions and generating race-based disparities. Most existing research examining race disparities takes a bias perspective – focusing on how stereotypes and prejudice can make judgements more positive or negative as a mechanism underlying race-based inequality. We review this literature, while also providing evidence that differential sensitivity – more accurately reading cues and signals of ingroup and majority group members than outgroup and minority group members – can also serve as a mechanism underlying race-based discrimination. We propose that an integrated perspective encompassing sensitivity and response bias as routes to intergroup inequality may offer researchers a novel approach to existing intergroup questions as well as a generative perspective on intergroup research programmes.

摘要

在目前的工作中，我们审查了一项不断增长的研究计划，该计划确定了基于种族的人际敏感性缺陷，特别是情绪检测，作为在跨种族互动中制造陷阱和产生基于种族差异的途径。大多数审查种族差异的现有研究都采用偏见的观点——重点关注刻板印象和偏见如何使判断更加积极或消极，作为基于种族不平等的一种机制。我们回顾了这些文献，同时也提供了证据表明差异敏感性——比外群体和少数群体成员更准确地阅读内群体和多数群体成员的线索和信号——也可以作为基于种族歧视的一种机制。我们建议，将敏感性和反应偏见作为通向群体间不平等的途径的综合视角可能为研究人员提供一种解决现有群体间问题的新方法以及群体间研究计划的生成视角。